Youth Moves

Robert Lingard, University of Sheffield, UK My overall reaction is that this is a very good proposal with two very good scholars as editors, one very established with a strong international reputation, the other one of the significant and notable rising young scholars in education. The authors of the various chapters are experts in their fields and there is a very good mix of new and established scholars from around the globe. The topic is important and significant, the structure of the proposed collection is sensible and logical. I think this can be an exciting collection on an exciting topic. Greg Dimitriadis, University at Buffalo, SUNY, USA (series editor)"I think this book will become the 'go to' book for looking at issues of global youth culture, clearly an emerging area of inquiry. I think it will sell very well in a range of graduate and undergraduate courses in the social foundations of education (e.g., sociology of education) as well as classes in international and global education. I also think it will be picked up in sociology and communications courses which have come to focus on issues of globalization. Youth Moves is uniquely situated here in its focus on youth. In sum, this was exactly the kind of book I had in mind when I proposed this series (indeed, it was described in detail in the series proposal). I give it my highest possible support."

• Introduction: Youth, Mobility, and Identity Section 1: New Times, New Identities 1. The Global Corporate Curriculum and the Young Cyberflâneur as Global Citizen 2. Shoot the Elephant: Antagonistic Identities, Neo-Marxist Nostalgia, and the Remorselessly Vanishing Past 3. New Textual Worlds: Young People and Computer Games Section 2: Diasporic Youth: Rethinking Borders and Boundaries in the New Modernity 4. Consuming Difference: Stylish Hybridity, Diasporic Identity, and the Politics of Culture 5. Diasporan Moves: African Canadian Youth and Identity Formation 6. Popular Culture and Recognition: Narratives of Youth and Latinidad 7. Mobile Students in Liquid Modernity: Negotiating the Politics of Transnational Identities Section 3: Youth and the Global Context: Transforming Us Where We Live 8. The Children of Liberalization: Youth Agency and Globalization in India 9. Youth Cultures of Consumption in Johannesburg 10. Identities for Neoliberal Times: Constructing Enterprising Selves in an American Suburb 11. Disciplining "Generation M": The Paradox of Creating a "Local" National Identity in an Era of "Global" Flows 12. Marginalization, Identity Formation, and Empowerment: Youth’s Struggles for Self and Social Justice